02 e. J. GAHAN 



148. Niphona vicina, sp. n. N. furcatae {Bates) persìmiUs et 

 affìnis, sed elytrorum apicibus minus obiiquUer truncatis. Long. 

 15-16 mm. 



Thagatà in Tenasserim. Two examples. 



Clothed with a pubescence which is mostly of a yellowish 

 or ochreous-grey colour, but which is ashy-white on the inner 

 side of the legs, along the middle of the underside of the body, 

 and on the sides of the elytra. Head with the lower lobes of 

 the eyes moderately large, the vertex forming with the front 

 an almost continuous curve. Prothorax very slightly rounded 

 and unarmed at the sides ; the disk longitudinally ridged in the 

 middle, with, usually, three of tlie ridges regular and distinct, 

 while those external to them are broken and irregular, so that 

 the outer part of the disk and the sides of the prothorax have 

 a somewhat roughly granular appearance; the anterior part 

 (almost a third) of the disk is smooth ; while at the base there 

 is a fine transverse groove, followed in the middle by a slight 

 posterior lobe which fits closely against the scutellum. The ely- 

 tra, broadest at the base, gradually narrow up to the beginning 

 of the apical fourth , and thence are more strongly attenuated 

 to the apex ; the apical truncation of each elytron is somewhat 

 oblique with a slight emargination close to the suture ; the out- 

 line of this margin is more or less obscured by a fringe of 

 hairs ; the punctuation of the elytra is strong , but not very 

 dense, and is more evident on a dorsal sub-glabrous area (which 

 may have been produced by rubbing). Each elytron carries at 

 the base a short longitudinal crest, surmounted by yellowish-brown 

 hairs, and a similar, but much feebler crest, in the depression 

 between this and the shoulder. 



This species very closely resembles Aelara furcata, Bates, and 

 is chiefly to be distinguished by the difference in form of the 

 apices of the elytra. In furcata the apices are much more pro- 

 duced on the outside so that the truncation has a strongly 

 oblique direction ; in vicina the elytra are only slightly prolonged 

 at the outer apex, and the truncation of each is consequently 

 much less oblique. 



